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- catalog abstract "One of the greatest classics of modern Western literature and science and the source of the ripest thoughts of America's most important philosopher.".
- catalog abstract "History of the Boston Latin School and its long tradition of superior linguistic training examined by a former teacher at that institution.".
- catalog abstract "Historical and theological questions about Jesus' life are addressed.".
- catalog abstract "Covers biology, glaciology cold poles and heat balances, conjugate phenomena, ocean dynamics, and Gondwanaland.".
- catalog abstract ""The papers ... were written for a conference ... held at the State University of New York at Binghamton, September 18-22, 1969."".
- catalog abstract "Discusses the duties the Secret Service performs for the Treasury Department and the President and includes information on its formation and history.".
- catalog abstract "Illustrates the need for reform and reinterpretation of the labour laws of Canada, and Manitoba in particular.".
- catalog abstract "Seven studies of brainwashing by specialists covering powers of hypnosis, drugs, isolation, physical deprivation, etc., and countermeasures available for each.".
- catalog abstract ""This book introduces the fundamentals of compressible-fluid motion, or gasdynamics."--Preface.".
- catalog abstract "Two 14 year old girls in Uganda have an adventure at the Entebbe Airport.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the Zapotec Indian who instituted many reforms during his fourteen years as President of Mexico.".
- catalog abstract ""A philosophical statement whose explicit intention is to sweep away as both false and dangerous the 'animist' conception of man that has dominated virtually all Western world views from those of primitive cultures to those of dialectical materialists. Monod bases his argument on the evidence of modern biology, which shows, indisputably, that man is the product of chance genetic mutation. He draws upon what we now know about genetic structure (and on what we can theorize) to suggest an entirely new way of looking at ourselves. He argues that objective scientific knowledge, the only knowledge we can rely on, denies the concepts of destiny or evolutionary purpose that underlie traditional philosophies; and he contends that the persistence of those concepts is responsible for the intensifying schizophrenia of a world that accepts, and lives by, the fruits of science while refusing to face its momentous moral implications"--Publisher description.".
- catalog abstract "Set on a Mississippi steamer on April Fool's Day and populated by a series of shape-shifting con men, The Confidence-Man is a challenging metaphysical and ethical exploration of antebellum American society.".
- catalog abstract "Sir John Suckling was an English poet and one prominent figure among those renowned for careless gaiety, wit, and all the accomplishments of a Cavalier poet. This is a collection of his non-dramatic works.".
- catalog abstract "A commentary on Pānini's Aṣtādhyāyī.".
- catalog abstract ""Lectures on Pāṇini ... delivered ... under the auspices of the Sanskrit College Seminar in February [1970]."".
- catalog abstract "Retells six tales from American black folk literature: "Why the Waves Have Whitecaps," "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear," "Why Dogs Hate Cats," "The Farmer and the Snake," "What is Trouble?" and "The Knee-High Man."".
- catalog abstract "Love story set in the foreboding, heather-covered, wind-swept Yorkshire moors in the early 19th century.".
- catalog abstract "There are many ways of approaching the study of Man. The author, who believes that biological knowledge provides a useful framework to help us to understand ourselves, sets out to present the basic scientific facts about human life in a coherent scheme. There are sections on heredity and reproduction, growth, intelligence testing, aging, and population growth; the stages of human evolution are traced from the origin of life to the beginnings of human culture.".
- catalog abstract "This story set in the village of Capistrano, involves a boy and an old gardener who love the birds and wait for their return.".
- catalog abstract "From a blend of painstaking research and imaginative reconstruction, the authors have recreated the unique life of one of America's most colorful folk figures.".
- catalog abstract "Few contemporaries boasted that they really knew Cromwell. Perhaps he did not know himself. He thought of himself as an ordinary Englishman, yet it is apparent that he was an extraordinary man. Cromwell rose to greatness suddenly, and in middle age; but unlike others whose rise was swift, he was never an adventurer in politics, nor a wayward genius whose life's blood was refreshed by political play. Despite the charges of the jealous and the alienated, he seems to have had no lust for high office and no pretensions to pomp and circumstance. One tends to think of Cromwell as the spawn of the revolution, thrown to prominence and power in the cataract of events after 1642, and to forget that he was also a cause of the revolution, embodying in his person some of the sources of discontent in the kingdom and nurturing the bracing spirit which made the waging of a civil war both thinkable and feasible. - Introduction.".
- catalog abstract "The Second World War's destructive impact on the continent of Europe probably exceeds that of any previous disaster in the modern era. This volume is concerned with a brief six-year period. Wright, having mastered a vast amount of diffuse literature on WWII, has put his own stimulating interpretations on a difficult and complicated subject. The book goes far beyond the usual military chronicle. It is a splendid synthesis of a tragic phase of recent European history.".
- catalog abstract "An American officer found guilty of treason in the Vietnam battlefield, finds a way to redeem himself during 48 hours in an American prison stockade in Quai Dong.".
- catalog abstract ""Sexual Behavior in the Human Female" was originally published in 1953, five years after the male volume. The material presented in this book was derived from personal interviews with nearly 6,000 women; from studies in sexual Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Endocrinology. The book presents data on the incidence and frequency with which women participate in various types of sexual activity. The authors show how such factors as age, decade of birth, and religious adherence are reflected in patterns of sexual behavior. Some measure of the social significance of the various types of sexual behavior is provided. The authors make comparisons of female and male sexual activities, and investigate the factors which account for the similarities and differences between female and male patterns of behavior.".
- catalog abstract "A study of the idea of heroism in Carlyle and Nietzsche, with Notes on Wagner, Spengler, Stefan George, and D.H. Lawrence.".
- catalog abstract "Discusses flowering plants of the Old and New Worlds which provide food to meet the varied needs of people in different regions.".
- catalog abstract "Representative writings of the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher are supplemented by textual notes.".
- catalog abstract "New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.".
- catalog abstract "A revision of the author's A laboratory manual for comparative vertebrate anatomy, intended now to serve as a text as well as a laboratory manual.".
- catalog abstract "Tells of the Wapshot family as they carom around the world with considerable velocity, at times veering into outbreaks of wild hilarity.".
- catalog abstract "A History of Korea is a translation of Professor Hatada Takashi's Chosenshi, undoubtedly the best known survey history of Korea ever written. For almost two decades this work, which surveys developments on the Korean peninsula from the prehistoric period to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950, has been standard reading for students of Korean history throughout the world. The translators remark that they were attracted to Hatada's work by ". . . the skill with which the author revealed the interrelationship between political history and social and economic development" (p. vi). The focus of Hatada's work on selected aspects of Korean socio-economic history, an area in which he has made major contributions through his publications, is at once strength and a weakness. Hatada's concentration upon the socio-economic position of the Korean peasantry and outcaste groups and the control of the agricultural foundations of the state by the Korean elite led him to ignore the entire cultural dimension, the book's most serious flaw, and to deempha-size other economic factors such as international trade and domestic commerce. At the same time, this socio-economic emphasis proved to be the book's greatest strength, so much so, that despite weaknesses, e.g., the sketchy and often erroneous character of the final chapter covering pOst-I945 events, which would have led to the early demise of a lesser work, the book has gone through sixteen printings since it first appeared in late I95I. A second strength of Hatada's work, regrettably but understandably omitted in the translation, was provided by the bibliographies ap-pended to each of the book's fifty-eight sections, and the selected bibliography at the end which together provided an overview of Japanese scholarship on Korean history. -- from http://www.jstor.org (June 13, 2011).".
- catalog abstract "Analyzes the practices the executive must master in order to be truly effective.".
- catalog abstract ""The dominant theme of the present book is that the states of health or diease are the expression of the success or failure experienced by the organism in its efforts to respond adaptively to environmental challenges. ... But experience shows that human beings are not passive components in adaptive systems." Professor Dubos illustrates his thesis with examples from many fields of research. -from dust jacket.".
- catalog abstract "Revision of the report of the Delaware Valley Project, Syracuse University, titled : "The problem of water resources administration," with special reference to the Delaware River Basin.".
- catalog abstract "A biography of the New Yorker who became Governor of his State, Vice President under McKinley, and twenty-sixth President of the United States.".
- catalog abstract "Major Powell's famous 1878 report to the Secretary of the Interior outlines the features of the West's arid regions, and warns against the consequences of trying to impose on a dry country the habits formed in a wet one.".
- catalog abstract "This book is based on a seminar organized by the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, cosponsored by the McKinsey Foundation. Businessmen and scholars in finance, econmics, marketing, and organization compare growth by acquisitio and by internal means in an attempt to relate mergers and acquisitions to the sometimes divergent interests of management and shareholders. Three main areas covered -- the relation of growth to profit, the execution of specific mergers, and managerial problems after the merger. Each paper is followed by an edited transcript of the discussion generated by it at the seminar. The approach is varied in each case: some contributors pose the issues; some apply the appropriate economic theory; and some privide important empirical information.".
- catalog abstract "This is an essential guide for placing contemporary race relations in factual and humane perspective.".
- catalog abstract "Nine essays reflecting potentially explosive social, economic and political issues in industry-labor relations.".
- catalog abstract "With the exception of chapters 1 and 7 and much of chapter 2, the text is reproduced from Hoover Institute studies, 1951-52, and from the American political science review, v. 31.".
- catalog abstract "This work brings together, for the first time, the complete stories, thirty-one in all, of the great American short fiction writer, Flannery O'Connor.".
- catalog abstract "Based on a conference held in connection with the IRA's Kansas City convention, and jointly sponsored by the IRA and the National Congress of Parents and Teachers.".
- catalog abstract "Calls attention to the technical achievements in civil engineer, mining engineer, the invention of machines, river-control, canal-building, bridge-building, and structural engineering on the continent of Europe.".
- catalog abstract "A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.".
- catalog abstract "Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.".
- catalog abstract "This English translation of the new and thoroughly revised sixth German edition of the extensive extra-canonical gospel literature is an absolutely indispensable collection of sources for every student of the New Testament and of the history and literature of ancient Christianity. The reader will find lucid accounts of the results and questions of the intensive and exciting international scholarly debate of the last two decades.".
- catalog abstract "For nearly three centuries Malleus Maleficarum (the witches hammer) was the professional manual for witch hunters. This book by two of the most famous Inquisitors of the age is still a document of the force of that eras beliefs. Under a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, Kramer and Sprenger exposed the heresy of those who did not believe in witches and set forth the proper order of the world with devils, witches, and the will of god. Even if you do not believe in the witchcraft, the world of 1484 did.".
- catalog abstract "This book includes expanded coverage of Laplace transforms and partial differential equations as well as a chapter on numerical methods.".
- catalog abstract ""In this book, Henri Pirenne, the great Belgian economic historian, traces the character and general movement of the economic and social evolution of Western Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the middle of the fifteenth century. From the breakup of the economic equilibrium of the ancient world to the revival of commerce, the redevelopment of credit, the trade of commodities, the origins of urban industry, and the rebirth of new forms of protectionism, mercantilism, and capitalism, Pirenne presents as complete a picture of the medieval world as is possible in one volume." -- Back cover.".
- catalog abstract "Synopsis: Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for social thought and political action. Theorists such as Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner adopted the idea of the struggle for existence as justification for the evils as well as the benefits of laissez-faire modern industrial society. Others such as William James and John Dewey argued that human planning was needed to direct social development and improve upon the natural order. Hofstadter's classic study of the ramifications of Darwinism is a major analysis of the social philosophies that animated intellectual movements of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.".
- catalog abstract "Picture-text survey of the causes, campaigns, and consequences of the conflict, with critical analysis of the failures and futilities of the "War to end all war."".
- catalog abstract "The story of the experimental community that included Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dana is related through this collection of materials pertaining to the rise, development, and fall of Brook Farm.".
- catalog abstract "The science of biology has grown from the time of ancient Greeks to the present time, which has seen an explosive growth in the field, particularly in the field of molecular biology. Professor Asimov outlines the growth of biological ideas.".
- catalog abstract "Contents: Statements of central place theory Studies of systems of central places Studies of urban spheres of influence and the trade areas of cities Ideas of areal functional organization Fairs and markets The internal business structure of the city On town-country relations, rural neighborhoods and communities Medical service areas Planned shopping centers On measuring retail trade areas and urban domin ance fields; store location research Relations of business structure and consumer shopping and travel habits Central place theory as location theory Ecological theory and central places Planning concepts, community organization, and business centers Business structure and the theory of retailing Urban business structure and urban land use theory.".
- catalog abstract "For research workers and final year undergraduates in the biological sciences.".
- catalog abstract "A tribute to over 100 men and women who have illuminated the movie screens of the world with their personalities and their talents.".
- catalog abstract "A ten-year-old slowly realizes her grandmother's memory is getting so bad she may have to go to a nursing home.".
- catalog abstract "The Kenton family flees from Tuskingum, Ohio, to Europe seeking solace for daughter Ellen's broken heart. After experiencing foreign travel, urban living, and turn-of-the-century European mores, the family returns to a confined, but secure, life in their small village.".
- catalog abstract "Under the auspices of the Council on Foreign Relations, six leading students of Latin American society analyze social forces at work in those countries in general and in particular Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Guatemala, and Mexico.".
- catalog abstract ""This volume will be a "must" book for every city library, however large or small, for college, university and seminary libraries; for the desk of every minister of whatever faith or denomination; for teachers of religion, philosophy, history, and subjects dealing with the humanities; for teachers in church schools, Sunday and parochial schools; for social workers and educators; and for the book-shelf, however modest its size, of every cultured home where conversations turn naturally and frequently to questions of religion, religious faith and practices. All articles are written by contributors who are especially qualified and sympathetic with their topics... One hundred and ninety scholars have shared in the preparation of this work for publication."".
- catalog abstract "This book examines the structural, organization and operational costs, regional distribution of crime property losses and recoveries, arrests and convictions, and training. The American police problem is clearly defined and related to crime control, civic appraisal, and public demands. Police today need more and more to reexamine the basic assumptions concerning the exercise of their authority. The police, if they are to be a profession, must be able to establish themselves as enforcers rather than as evaders of our criminal codes.".
- catalog abstract "Examines American foreign policy and diplomacy in the decade following World War II.".
- catalog abstract "DSU Title III 2002-2012.".
- catalog abstract "Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.".
- catalog abstract "This unique selection presents the essential elements of Sartre's lifework, organized systematically and made available in one volume for the first time in any language.".
- catalog abstract "Tr. from the author's unpublished ms. cr. Dust jacket, v.1. "List of authors, artists, periodicals, and works": v.1, p. 337-345. CONTENTS.- [1] 1910-1913.".
- catalog abstract "True adventure book describes the most recent discoveries and progress made by Captain Cousteau and his team of Marine science explorers.".
- catalog abstract "Portrays the rise of anti-intellectualism in America during the McCarthy era.".
- catalog abstract "Poems on aspects of race or racial problems by well-known Negro poets, including Countee Cullen, Richard Wright, Leroi Jones, Langston Hughes, and James Weldon Johnson.".
- catalog abstract "A story of high adventure, taking place during the years 1819 to 1821, centering around two conflicts: the struggle of man against the fierce Antarctic winter, and the competition between two evenly matched sealing expeditions.".
- catalog abstract "Includes selections by the editors; a chronology of important dates and a bibliography.".
- catalog abstract "The Special Assistant to President Kennedy describes the historic events in which John F. Kennedy participated during his three years in the White House.".
- catalog abstract "Biographical and critical study.".
- catalog abstract "For other editions, see Title Catalog.".
- catalog abstract "Contemporary critical opinions and commentaries on Henry David Thoreau and his works. Includes a chronology.".
- catalog abstract "A thinly veiled account of Judge Albion W. Tourgee's own career as a forceful advocate of civil rights was a bestseller in the 1880s and continues to occupy a place in the history of American literature. Judge Tourgee's reflections on the fundamental post- abolition problem of how to build a bridge from black emancipation to black equality provide readers with a clear picture of the South during the Reconstruction era. Presented as a work of fiction, this engaging and provocative work discusses Reconstruction and the many problems surrounding it.".
- catalog abstract "These proceedings are composed of three parts: 1) the individual papers, 2) their discussions, and 3) a retrospective summation of the meeting's deliberations. If we were to suggest a starting place for reading it would probably be the summation -- it attempts to place the various papers and discussions into a general context and to point out relevant ideas of current knowledge and of potentially useful avenues for further research. The papers and discussions deal more specifically with the individual topics. It is hoped that the tone and tenor of the meeting are somewhat reflected in its proceedings. The emphasis today in biological research is quite "ecumenical" in outlook in that often techniques and conclusions from one discipline have relevance and applicability to another. For example, the elucidation of the DNA synthetic stage during interphase was first accomplished with botanical material; this technique has since had a broad and significant role in medical research. Also, the pioneering and now classical studies regarding the effects of ionizing radiation on plant chromosomes were, and still are, the foundation for studying mammalian chromosomes: it required only the discovery of a hypotonic medium to achieve spreading of them so that similar types of analyses were possible. Plants and plant cells have many unique features which allow them to be useful either for the study of specific botanical problems, or for studying broad biological principles. When dealing with a single broad topic it is often very useful for scientists to meet and discuss their work in a relatively closed seminar type of setting. This was the format chosen for this meeting. The goal of the meeting was to achieve a better understanding of meristem organization and function in relation to meristems per se or in relation to uses of meristems for elucidating fundamental biological principles (i.e., in those instances where the meristem is the "tool" and not necessarily the subject). Though the scientists present at these proceedings variously considered themselves as morphologists or as anatomists, as cell biologists or as radiation biologists, nevertheless, each of them utilized a plant meristem as a tool. What resulted was something akin to the viewing of a multifaceted crystal, with different "angles" giving different colors, different types of illumination. It was inevitable that conflicting opinions should exist; it is hoped that they are reflected in the contents of this volume. In a meeting where the expertise of the audience is no less than that of the speakers, the discussions are frequently as The papers in this volume constitute a broad, but well-balanced portrayal of meristems both as subjects and as tools. The papers contain comprehensive coverage of many new and important developments with a bounty of new data and formulations. The discussions following each paper, and the conference summation, are in some fashion further amplification, further integration, and further interrogation of the information "bits" contained in the papers. Clearly, plant meristems have been and will continue to be useful vehicles for a variety of research endeavors. This assessment of meristems from a variety of viewpoints hopefully achieves a greater understanding of meristem function.valuable as the papers themselves.".
- catalog abstract "Current guide to the use of the literature of biology and related areas. Arranged into chapters. Covers literature problems of the scientist, the library, bibliographies, abstract tools, bibliographic form, serials, taxonomic literature, and techniques of searching the literature and preparing a scientific paper. References included with chapters. General index. 1st ed., 1942; 7th ed., 1967.".
- catalog abstract "Papers by members of the Royal Society Study Group on Non-Verbal Communication.".
- catalog abstract "Nineteen poems, and the story of a Nova Scotia childhood, "In the village".".
- catalog abstract "Lyrical verses span the career of a twentieth-century American poet, and illuminate his concern for the future of humanity.".
- catalog abstract "Over 200 familiar and unfamiliar quotations.".
- catalog abstract "A case study; A case study in perspective; A case study retrospect; Man - a special case?".
- catalog abstract "Dreiser's second novel and his own personal favorite features an impoverished heroine who, in simply trying to make her way in the world, inadvertently defies a host of social conventions.".
- catalog abstract "Included in this collection of Medieval writings are Ray Petry's careful essays on the province and character of mysticism and the history of mysticism from Plato to Bernard of Clairvaux. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with modern English translations of some of the most significant Christian theological texts in history. Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.".
- catalog abstract "A collection of readings from China, India, and Japan, assembled from government, religious, and literary texts across the years 500 to 1500 A.D.".
- catalog abstract "Contemporary critical opinion and commentary on F. Scott Fitzgerald and his works. Includes a chronology, notes, and bibliography.".
- catalog abstract "A history of the 1889 flood that killed over 2,000 people in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Based on letters, diaries, historical records, and interviews with survivors. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation's burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. This book paints the classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overwhelming confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly. -- from Back Cover.".
- catalog abstract "Presents a selection of 16 essays that assembles those approaches to his work which have proved most fruitful, andgives wider circulation to several first-rate studies notreadily available.".
- catalog abstract "Dictionary of terms and phrases that refer to the environment and its preservation. Drawings, tables, and photographs.".
- catalog abstract "Describes how the "protagonists of folklore and religion enact simultaneously the various phases of their common story" and relates "their timeless symbols to those rediscovered in dream by contemporary depth psychology."".
- catalog abstract "This analysis of the reform movements in American politics from 1890-1940 reviews: (1) The agrarian uprising that found its expression in the Populist movement of the 1890's; (2) The Progressive movement from about 1900 to 1914; (3) The New Deal of the 1930's. Emphasis is placed upon the ideas of the leading political reformers, their aims and techniques, and the combined effect of all of these things upon American thinking.".
- catalog abstract "Stanislavski's "System" offers both a means of mastering the craft of acting and of stimulating the actor's individual creativeness and imagination. Generations of actors have been inspired by his ideas -- the "magic if," "emotional memory," the "unbroken line"--And by that hallmark of Stanislavski's work, an unwavering commitment to theatrical truth.".
- catalog abstract "Shares stories of childhood as seen through the eyes of a young Armenian boy in Fresno, California.".
- catalog abstract "This work is the complete report by Ross Terrill - the most sensitive and informed eyewitness study yet written of the people, government and leaders of China. It is the product of Terrill's 1971 trip to China, as one of the first correspondents for an American publication (The Atlantic Monthly) to be admitted after Peking opened its doors. The journey lasted forty days and took him 7,000 miles.".
- catalog abstract "When he can't find his cat to enter in the neighborhood pet show, Archie must do some fast thinking to win a prize.".
- catalog abstract "Volume 3.".
- catalog abstract "In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City. "The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to beauty but, almost, hopelessly impaled on it. There are many voices in this novel: children's voices, adult voices, underground voices -- but Holden's voice is the most eloquent of all. Transcending his own vernacular, yet remaining marvelously faithful to it, he issues a perfectly articulated cry of mixed pain and pleasure.However, like most lovers and clowns and poets of the higher orders, he keeps most of the pain to, and for, himself. The pleasure he gives away, or sets aside, with all his heart. It is there for the reader who can handle it to keep.--Book jacket.".
- catalog abstract ""The purpose of this book is to discuss and present evidence for the general thesis that the flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system"--Page 2.".